When Sweden plays Denmark at home it’s abbreviated SWE-DEN, leaving the remaining letters to spell DEN-MARK. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: See also CYP-RUS RUS-SIA, POL-AND AND-DORA, BHU-TAN and TAN-ZANIA
Weird
This is our weird but true facts category. These may be a little odd and a little strange, but they are all most definitely true facts! If you are looking for weird fun facts then start scrolling!
WTF Fun Fact – Cards Against Humanity Prank
In 2014, to protest shopping holiday Black Friday, Cards Against Humanity sold 30,000 boxes labeled “Bullshit” to shoppers for $6 each. The boxes contained actual bull feces. All the profits were donated to charity. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Hadaka Matsuri
In the hope of a prosperous year, thousands of Japanese men brave the cold in loin cloths called fundoshi as part of a naked festival marking the start of spring. The Hadaka Matsuri in Okayama has been celebrated for ~500 years. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Pacu Fish
Pacu fish have surprisingly straight teeth which look eerily similar to human teeth. The Pacu, which is a relative of the piranha, primarily eats fruit, seeds, and nuts and are mostly harmless to people. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://number18dental.com/holy-molars-the-fish-with-human-teeth/
WTF Fun Fact – Star Trek Too Sexy
The original Star Trek pilot “The Cage” nearly prevented the show from being ordered to series because it was too sexy, too cerebral, and lacking action. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.liveabout.com/the-lost-star-trek-pilot-4031216
WTF Fun Fact – Toys Left Behind
A recent survey of 8,000 UK hotels found that 30% of personal possessions left behind were sex toys or sex-related. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/sex-toys-account-massive-30-5897594
WTF Fun Fact – Nookie-Bookie
The term nookie-bookie originated in the 1940’s for a person who manages prostitutes and arranges clients for them a.k.a a pimp or a madam. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – NBC Says No Buttcracks
The TV series Hannibal had a cinematic shot of a naked flayed couple. NBC thought this was unacceptable because their buttcracks were showing. The director offered to fill their buttcracks with blood to make it less offensive. NBC allowed the shot with that modification. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Most Dangerous Job
Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – US Street Names
The most common street name in the U.S. is Second St. First is the third most common street name, Third is the second most common, while Fifth is the sixth most common. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Rain Of Fish
The ‘Rain of fish’ is an annual event celebrated in the Honduran city of Yoro. During massive rain storms, hundreds of small silver fish supposedly rain from the sky onto the streets of the small town. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/37820-lluvia-de-peces-fish-rain.html
WTF Fun Fact – NASA Raids Denny’s
NASA’s Office of Inspector General once raided a Denny’s as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a paperweight containing a moon rock the size of a rice grain. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-detained-moon-rock-20170413-story.html
WTF Fun Fact – Lichtenberg Figures
Being struck by lightning causes weird skin designs called ‘Lichtenberg figures’, named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Fatherless Ants
Male ants have no fathers because unfertilized ant eggs always produce male ants and only fertilized eggs produce female ants. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant#Development_and_reproduction
WTF Fun Fact – Full Moon And Animals
A recent study found dogs and cats are ~25% more likely to get injured on the days surrounding a full moon, but no conclusive evidence as to why that is. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/1696-full-moon-sends-dogs-cats-emergency-room.html
WTF Fun Fact – Trepanation
Thousands of years ago, people were performing a form of surgery called ‘trepanation’ that involves boring holes through a person’s skull. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.theindependentbd.com/arcprint/details/58114/2016-08-30
WTF Fun Fact – Anatoli Brouchkov
Anatoli Brouchkov, a Russian geocryologist, injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria known as Bacillus F, which he found in a permafrost sample, just to see what would happen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3gg7/meet-the-scientist-who-injected-himself-with-35-million-year-old-bacteria
WTF Fun Fact – Unsolicited Pictures
The first empirical study on “dick pics” found that 48% of men have sent unsolicited pictures of their genitals. Those men who send unsolicited pictures are also bigger narcissists and more sexist than their counterparts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7xgaje/men-who-send-unsolicited-dick-pics-are-bigger-narcissists-study-finds